Let me guess? Food storage was the main purpose you had in mind when you actually bought your vacuum sealer, correct? Obviously, almost 9 out 10 buyers would confirm that owning an efficient food packaging solution was their foremost reason to purchasing this appliance. But, did you know that the same vacuum sealing machine can be used for other applications? If you didn’t, don’t worry. We are here to help. With the next examples, we hope to trigger some mental exercises that guide your creativity in the right direction to multiply your possibilities.

Media Devices and CDs

If you are older enough to have experienced and played vinyl records, you certainly will attest that air, humidity and dust are the prime suspects to produce significant damage to our media. Storing your blue-ray discs and DVDs in their cases may safeguard them from falls but they do very little against our three main suspects. When you vacuum seal the cases and LP records in made-to-order pouches, you actually end up protecting and preserving your media entirely for many years to come.

Important Documents

Just like the old saying says, one can never be too careful. What would be the difference between lamination and vacuum sealing? While both methods have demonstrated to be a helpful way to protect important documents, possibly vacuum sealing might have less weaknesses than lamination. If and when lamination gets broken, almost certainly your document will as well get damaged because the hard layer that protected the document would have been trespassed. In addition to this, when a document goes through lamination it normally is applied to one single sample. With vacuum sealing, the user can place several important documents into one bag and vacuum seal them altogether.

Magazines and Books

Like any other wood product, paper products suffer from oxidation problems when they are kept open “in the air” for too long. Books and magazines, even if you keep them in cardboard boxes, they will nonetheless “suffer” when exposed to moisture and air, and this will produce effects like mold growth, yellowing, and outbreaks.

Again, vacuum packaging these items will automatically prevent these effects from expanding and you will keep the quality and readability of your books and magazines. Furthermore, throw some silica gel or a some packets of rock salt in addition to the process of vacuum sealing and this will help still more to reduce moisture exposure.

Emergency and Travel Kits

We all know about the nuances of travelling. Medicine bottles, cosmetics, toiletries and similar products pose a challenge as the fluid inside them can simply spill out. If one vacuum seals these products basically this trouble disappears and not only that, it is less cumbersome to pack the bag!

Being prepared for extreme –disastrous- situations it is all about having the appropriate material and kits all set for its quick and effective use. That is, the reader can vacuum seal gauze tapes, gloves, surgical material, and band aids into one or several pouches and have them fit nicely and neatly into your first aid bag.

Using your creativity and trying to meet the immediate and other applications of your vacuum sealer can give the reader a distinctive advantage when facing day-to-day and emergency situations.